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Roasted Chicken – Slow Cooker

As you know I have become a huge fan of slow cooker cooking over these past few months. I especially love making ahead and freezing slow cooker meals, and then popping them in the slow cooker before work; returning home to dinner ready or nearly ready. This amazing time saving Slow Cooker Roast Chicken recipe is one of the reasons I love the slow cooker.

However, I have discovered a few downfalls to the slow cooker thing. One of the downfalls is that my newest slow cooker does not cook the potatoes at the same speed that it cooks everything else. That means that I either need to change the way I cut my potatoes or always use one of the older slow cookers if there are potatoes in a recipe.

Another thing I have discovered is that cooking a whole chicken in the slow cooker makes it very mushy. I love to stew whole chickens on the stove top to make other recipes with, but not so much in the slow cooker. Also, there is no way to ‘oven roast’ a whole chicken in the slow cooker. Or is there?

I had discovered a slow cooker roast chicken leg recipe several months back and started wondering if I could do that same technique with a whole chicken. I tried it last week and “voila”! It worked! Everyone in the house just loved it! Even The Hubs… it was cooked to near perfection. It was similar to a rotisserie style chicken.

I did use my new slow cooker, because it is oval and not round. The shape lent itself nicely to the shape of the chicken.

While this recipe doesn’t seem to be able to lend itself to the freezer to slow cooker idea, it does not take much time to prep before heading out the door to work, or staying in to work, or home schooling your children, or however you spend your very busy days.

I sincerely hope you try this excellent slow cooker roast chicken recipe and that you enjoy this morsel as much as we did!